2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup – Incheon
Make that two short-course world information in a single week for UVA-based swimmers as Kate Douglass provides her identify to the world document guide for the primary time in a person occasion. Douglass dismantled the super-suited ladies’s 200 breaststroke world document, which Rebecca Soni held at 2:14.57 since December 2009.
Douglass earned her first particular person Olympic gold medal within the long-course 200 breaststroke in Paris. Two years in the past, she gained the 2022 SC world title in a championship document 2:15.77, which stood as her lifetime greatest till her swim in Incheon. Given the enhancements that Douglass has made within the 50-meter pool within the virtually two years since that meet, there was loads of anticipation to see what she may put up within the lead-up to this 12 months’s version of the Quick Course World Championships in December.
Douglass neared her greatest time final week in Shanghai, swimming 2:15.96. Within the Incheon closing, she jumped on the race from the beginning, opening in 30.68—properly underneath world document tempo.
Break up Comparability:
| Douglass — 2024 Incheon World Cup | Soni — 2009 Duel In The Pool | Douglass — 2022 SC World Championship | |
| 50 | 30.68 | 31.05 | 30.96 |
| 100 | 1:04.75 (34.07) | 1:05.18 (34.13) | 1:05.35 (34.39) |
| 150 | 1:39.20 (34.45) | 1:40.00 (34.82) | 1:40.65 (35.30) |
| 200 | 2:14.16 (34.96) | 2:14.57 (34.57) | 2:15.77 (35.12) |
Douglass turned on the midway level in 1:04.75, .43 seconds forward of Soni’s 1:05.18 opening 100 meters. Douglass’s third 50 was exceptional—she cut up 34.45, extending her lead over the world document line to .80 seconds. Not solely was she .37 seconds forward of Soni’s tempo, however the third 50 cut up was an enormous drop from 2022, as she out-split herself by .85 seconds.
Then, she managed to maintain herself sub-35 seconds over the ultimate 50 meters of the race. Soni’s world document crept up, however Douglass constructed a large enough lead over the primary 150 meters of the race that she was in a position to stave off the world document line. She stopped the clock at 2:14.16, breaking Soni’s world document by .41 seconds.
Douglass is now the world document holder and world champion within the 25-meter pool, the Olympic champion and American document holder within the 50-meter pool, and the NCAA and American document holder within the 200-yard breaststroke. She cements herself as arguably one of the best 200 breaststroker throughout all three pool sizes we’ve ever seen.
By wiping Soni’s document off the books, just one supersuited quick course meters world document stays on the ladies’s facet: Therese Alshammar’s 24.38 mark within the 50 butterfly from the Singapore cease on the 2009 World Cup.
Douglass gained the Shanghai World Cup on the ladies’s facet. By sooner or later of racing, she’s main the Incheon standings with 39.7 factors and stays undefeated on the 2024 World Cup sequence by means of six occasions.
